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Someone asked me if sky diving is ony bucket list. No. My idea of thrill seeking is brushing my teeth after putting on a black shirt.

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"Humans are doomed to constantly pursue perfection and fear nothingness, but have you ever thought about how similar those two things are? The absence of opposing forces?" My therapist congratulated me on achieving the most existential coping mechanism for Trump she's seen so far.

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Everyone has heard of burnout, but what's the opposite where you work 12+ hour days and give it everything you've got and you think that if you stop to rest you'll probably die? Burning up? Burning man?

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Started the day with 5 hours of corporate jargon & FigJam boards for a well-known global tech company. The project: replacing customer support jobs with bots. Then I jumped to a meeting with another client, a nonprofit in Nigeria for victims of sexual assault. Excuse me while I collect myself.

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In the US, we smile at people on the street. In Europe, they go out of their way to brush against you. Even if you are the only two people on a wide walkway. It reminds me of cats rubbing their faces on you while indifferent about whether you live or die.

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Dear Overlords, I would be A LOT easier to mind control if eggs were cheaper and there was another season of Ted Lasso.

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Managing a team of gen Z after years of managing millennials is kicking my ass. All the unreasonable things the business asks us to do are now being brought to my attention instead of everyone quietly suffering.

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"Faith" is support without evidence. It persists even when it is challenged by contradicting evidence. "Loyalty" is about trust in a track record. It's rooted in reciprocity. The next time someone asks for your support, ask yourself whether it is a request for faith or loyalty.

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No one tells you that caring for your elderly parents is like being the only one who knows there is a 6-year-old living alone in a house who can legally drive, adopt pets, and open credit cards. Not trying to bash on the elderly, but it's damn hard to support them when cognitive decline sets in.

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I was told today that I'm too manipulative to be autistic. I'm not autistic, so that was actually two compliments.

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Having drinks with colleagues after some corporate nonsense, one woman asked me, "How do you do it all?" Is there a satisfying answer to that question? Because everything I said resulted in concerned eyebrows.

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I'm secretly disappointed that "pay with your palm" hasn't led to more people pulling out severed hands at whole foods.

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I get mad at the far right for their inconsistent values and lack of science-based reasoning. Then I think about how many of my LGBTQIA friends are into astrology or tarot. Maybe AI should run things.

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People are afraid of ChatGPT taking over the world because it can talk but it's the silent back-end algorithms that are causing the most trouble.

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Infuriating content leads to higher engagement. Higher engagement leads to more content that invokes rage. An enraged society is a brittle society. Algorithms feed our fury. The machines have already taken over. We lost. Time to give candies to the neighbors, water houseplants, and play Balatro.

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Laws of neurodivergence: 1. Every time you cut the scratchy tag off of a shirt, another scratchy tag appears somewhere in your closet. Tags cannot be created or destroyed.

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My dad was just like any other All-American dad. He taught me to be a good person by listening to his constant barrage of conflicting conspiracy theories. Wisdom comes from hearing about how "tough people don't need therapy" while eating a grand slam at Denny's.

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Your car is not a time machine.

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I found a bar that hosts a monthly storytelling event in a big garage where people from the community sign up to present to the audience. Maybe there is hope.

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Success is just a feeling.

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People gonna people.

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If the folks setting up the new government in Syria want some ideas, I've looked into the situation for the last half hour or so and I think I could help. DMs are open.

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I want people to walk out of their houses singing in the morning so I know how my neighbors are doing. Without talking to them.

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If the female fighter character doesn't put her hair back before entering battle she isn't there for female audiences.

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GenZers everywhere realizing you can't manifest good Black Friday sales.

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I just used "ChatGPT" three times in one sentence during a meeting. If tomorrow wasn't a holiday, I'd take a sick day.

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Anyway here’s a cheerful piece about how the Sun will eventually destroy all life on Earth (but not by exploding, so, you know, there’s that)

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